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Justice And Fairness In The Dictator Game, Bart Wilson, Karl Schurter

Bart J Wilson

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An Experimental Inquiry Into The Social Construction Of Property, Vernon Smith, Bart Wilson, Erik Kimbrough

Bart J Wilson

We design a laboratory experiment to explore whether and how property rights emerge in a specialization and exchange environment where theft is costless. Additional treatments examine various enforcement mechanisms to determine whether private actions can produce agreement to respect property. We find that although an absence of exogenous enforcement does not hamper property’s emergence in all cases, private enforcement instruments tend to worsen outcomes. Property emerges when subjects form groups, understand potential gains from trade, convince group members that all benefit by avoiding theft, and display credible commitment to cooperation in their actions. In other words, as Hume argued in …

Contra Private Fairness, Bart Wilson

Bart J Wilson

This paper attempts to clarify our understanding of the everyday use of fair as we apply it to economic behavior. I first examine the decomposition of fair into its semantic primitives and discuss implications of recent research which indicates that the word is untranslatable into any other language, i.e., the concept of fair is distinctly Anglo. I also make a Wittgensteinian appeal to context and human sociality as an indispensable tether for what we mean by a fair experience and what we epistemologically know about fairness. The principal implication of this is that rules that guide fair behavior are not …

Exchange And Specialisation As A Discovery Process, Bart Wilson, Sean Crockett, Vernon Smith

Bart J Wilson

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Appointed To Three Year Term On Finance Committee Of The Town Of Westport, Massachusetts, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

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Elected To The Board Of Directors Of The Westport River Watershed Alliance, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

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Transnational Law In Support Of Science; Science In Support Of Transnational Law, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

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Beyond Trademark Use, Stacey Dogan

Faculty Scholarship

For several years now, the question of “trademark use” has taken center stage in the debate over trademark liability of online intermediaries. Doctrinally, the debate addresses whether the Lanham Act places any limit on the types of “use” of trademarks that can subject one to a claim of infringement. The real conflict, however, has occurred at the normative level: whatever the Lanham Act says or does not say about trademark use, should trademark law limit the definition of infringement to situations in which the defendant has used the mark to brand its own products?

The Second Circuit appears to have …

Evil Has A New Name (And A New Narrative): Bernard Madoff, A. Christine Hurt

Faculty Scholarship

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Cyber Warfare And Precautions Against The Effects Of Attacks, Eric Talbot Jensen

Faculty Scholarship

Ninety-eight percent of all U.S. government communications travel over civilian-owned-and-operated networks. Additionally, the government relies almost completely on civilian providers for computer software and hardware products, services, and maintenance. This near-complete intermixing of civilian and military computer infrastructure makes many of those civilian objects and providers legitimate targets under the law of armed conflict. Other civilian networks, services, and communications may suffer collateral damage from legitimate attacks on government targets. To protect those civilian objects and providers from the effects of attacks, the law of armed conflict requires a state to segregate its military assets from the civilian population and …

State Of Utah V. John Vernon Cecil : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– )

Appeal from convictions for aggravated assault, criminal mischief, and reckless driving, in the Fifth Judicial District Court of Utah, Washington County, the Honorable G. Rand Beacham presiding.

The Pornographic Secondary Effects Doctrine, John Fee

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Law & Organizing: An Introduction To The Public Interest Practice Section, Shirley Lang

City University of New York Law Review

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Historically Black Colleges Advance Reverse Academic Diversity, L. Darnell Weeden

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sticks And Stones, The Words That Hurt: Entrenched Stereotypes Eight Years After 9/11, Sahar F. Aziz

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Housing Is Harm Reduction: The Case For The Creation Of Harm Reduction Based Termination Of Tenancy Procedures For The New York City Housing Authority, Megan Stuart

City University of New York Law Review

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Worker Unity And The Law: A Comparative Analysis Of The National Labor Relations Act And The Fair Labor Standards Act, And The Hope For The Nlra's Future, Jonathan Fox Harris

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Here Comes The Neighborhood: Attorneys, Organizers, And Immigrants Advancing A Collaborative Vision Of Justice, Sebastian Amar, Guy Johnson

City University of New York Law Review

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Role Of Legal Services In Workers' Organizing, Nadia Marin-Molina, Jamie Vargas

City University of New York Law Review

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Lawyers As Resource Allies In Workers' Struggles For Social Change, E. Tammy Kim

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

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City University of New York Law Review

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Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

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Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

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Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

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Negusie V. Holder: The End Of The Strict Liability Persecutor Bar?, Karl Goodman

City University of New York Law Review

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Snyder V. Louisiana: Continuing The Historical Trend Towards Increased Scrutiny Of Peremptory Challenges, John P. Bringewatt

Michigan Law Review

In March 2008, the Supreme Court decided Snyder v. Louisiana, the latest in the line of progeny of Batson v. Kentucky. This Note demonstrates that Snyder is part of a historical pattern of Supreme Court decisions concerning the use of peremptory challenges in which the Court has moved away from permitting the unfettered use of the peremptory challenge in favor of stronger Equal Protection considerations. Snyder alters the requirements for trial judges in deciding Batson challenges by requiring them to provide some explanation of their reasons for accepting a prosecutor's justification of a peremptory challenge. Snyder is the …

Albert Holland V. State Of Florida, Lawrence Fox, Susan Reece

Amicus Briefs

No abstract provided.

Padilla V. Kentucky: Immigration Consequences Due To The Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Evangeline Pittman

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

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Self-Employment And Bogus Self-Employment In The European Construction Industry, Michele Faioli, Edoardo Ales

Michele Faioli

Self-Employment and Bogus Self-Employment in the European Construction Industry Project carried out with the financial assistance of the European Commission There have always been self-employed workers in the construction industry. Craftsmen in particular are often self-employed workers. Approximately 14% of construction workers are self-employed today, according to “Employment in Europe 2005”. The level of self-employed workers is even higher in some countries, such as Greece (40%), Poland (29%), Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, UK. The distinction between self-employed workers and employees has important fiscal, social and economic consequences: • Self-employed workers work under their own professional responsibility and therefore do not work …

Where Have All The Lenders Gone?: "Loan To Own Transactions" In The Current Credit Market, Stephanie A. Nadler

Stephanie A Nadler

Credit is not readily available in current markets. While distressed firms are in dire need of capital contributions, traditional lenders are not willing to make risky loans. Distressed firms have turned to hedge funds as lenders for much-needed capital. Thus, hedge funds engage in “loan to own” transactions, a lending technique that has recently drawn much criticism. In a loan to own transaction, the hedge fund makes a loan to a distressed company, while also taking an equity stake in the company. Pursuant to such activity, the hedge fund will generally gain a seat on the board of directors or …